Kirat traditional tools: Mana

Image title: Kirat traditional tools: Mana

Description of the photo

This photograph depicts the following traditional Kirat tools and utensils, classified as Weighing Scales (nap-taul):

3. Mana (माना) referring in English to a “measure of ten handfuls of rice, pulse, etc.”. It can also be transliterated as: Mānā.

Note: the word Nap-taul (नाप-तौल), in English “weighing scales”, can also be transliterated as nāp-taul, nāpa-taula, napa-taula, nāptaul, naptaul, nāpataula, napataula.

Gallery information:

The Kirat  people are an ancient civilization from Nepal whose kings ruled in Kathmandu valley since at least 650 B.C. Their native religion consists of worshopping natural entities. The Kirats consists of several groups of which the major branches are called the Yakha, Rai, Limbu and the Sunuwar

Photo details:
Date: 2019-11-11
Camera: SONY ILCE-6400
Exposure: 1/25
Aperture: f/5
ISO: 2000
Focal length: 45mm

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Size: 2.09 MB
Resolution: 2400 x 1600
© Photograph by Gabe Hiemstra.
License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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